Books in the The Cambridge History of American Literature series

This volume explores the emergence of modernism in the United States. David Minter provides a cultural history of the American novel from World War I to the Great Depression, Rafia Zafar tells the story of the Harlem Renaissance, and Werner Sollors examines canonical as well as hitherto unknown immigrant writing.

Social, cultural, intellectual and aesthetic account of the American literary Renaissance.

This 1997 volume addresses the spectrum of new and established directions in American writing. An interdisciplinary distillation of American literary history, it weds the voice of traditional criticism with the diversity of interests that characterise contemporary literary studies. Volume I covers the colonial and early national periods.

This is the fullest account to date of American poetry and literary criticism in the Modernist period. Taken together, the contributions convey the astonishing Modernist poetic achievement in its full cultural, institutional, and aesthetic complexity.

Volume VII examines a broad range of American literature of the past half-century, revealing complex relations to changes in society. Topics include: American dramatists from Tennessee Williams to August Wilson; fiction from 1940 to 1970; writers of the American South; postmodern fictions; Native American, Asian American, Chicano, gay and lesbian writers.

The Cambridge History of American Literature addresses a broad spectrum of new and established directions in all branches of American writing. Volume VIII is concerned with works of poetry and criticism written between 1940 and today, exploring contexts of art, power, and cultural critique.

This volume covers a pivotal era in the formation of American identity. Four leading scholars connect the literature with the massive historical changes then underway. Together, these narratives constitute the richest, most detailed account to date of American literature and culture between 1860 and 1920.

This first complete history of nineteenth-century American poetry covers the span of the century, providing a new perspective on the achievements of female poets of the period, of African-American poets, as well as the major canonical figures, and paying full attention to the social and cultural contexts of the poetry.

This 1997 volume addresses the spectrum of new and established directions in American writing. An interdisciplinary distillation of American literary history, it weds the voice of traditional criticism with the diversity of interests that characterise contemporary literary studies. Volume I covers the colonial and early national periods.